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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

The last of the wedding layouts (I think...)

I've been working my way through photos from my youngest daughter's wedding. It was a small wedding (second marriage for both her and her husband) and the photographer didn't take a large amount of photos, but along with a few selfie photos from their Disney World honeymoon, I've filled up a post-bound album. This layout is the latest, and one of my favorites, The groom and best man were hamming it up for the camera.

My daughter and son-in-law both are huge rockabilly music fans (they met at a rockabilly music show and had a rockabilly themed wedding), so I was thrilled to find some music-themed paper with a 50's vibe. The patterns above are from Authentique's "Dapper" line, which is fabulous, I used a sketch from Susan Stringfellow, turned sideways and rearranged a bit. I hid the journaling tag under the square photo. I used punches to replicate the bottom paper pattern of notes and bubbles across the top of the page.

I've mentioned before that I'm a big fan of Laura Whitaker's sketches, but did you know she also designs some fabulous digital cut files? For this next layout of my granddaughter, I used the April free cut file that Laura offers on her blog, along with one of her older sketches that I found on Pinterest. The paper collection is "Paper Dolls" from Photoplay.

The background is a lovely pale pink color from Bazzill; it never shows up well in photos.

About Me

For those of you who don't "know" me, I'm an avid scrapbooker as well as a wife, mother of four, grandmother of nine (and counting!), and retired newspaper writer and public relations professional. I'm a native Illinois girl but moved to Colorado in November 2015 with my husband of 33 years, Mike, and my mother.
I scrapbook because I feel it's important to chronicle my family's daily lives as well as the "big events", and also as a form of artistic expression.
Our four children all are married with families, careers, mortgages and lives of their own. They're all back in the Midwest and we don't get to see each other as much as we would like, so photos and videos are important ways to share events in each others' lives.